In Montreal last week, grey-haired Michael Gordon Fulker, 41, sat at a three-minute hearing in the Court of King's Bench, heard the Crown say it had no evidence to offer, listened attentively as Justice Wilfrid Lazure solemnly added: "You have suffered enough."
Then Michael Fulker walked out to smell the sweet air of freedom for the first time in 20 years.
His was a strange story. He was born of American parents on a Quebec farm near the New York border, abandoned when four, and taken in by a man named Fulker. Six unhappy years later, he took his foster father's horse...